We're going to take a look at a small, yet nonetheless really quite fascinating…and fun new feature inside of Photoshop CS5, which allows us to quickly convert…our images to Black and White and add a little bit of a tone to these…photographs in a pretty unique way.…Well in order to take advantage of this new feature, we need to navigate to our…Window pulldown menu.…Here, we're going to go ahead and select Actions to open up our Actions panel.…Now this particular new feature revolves around a Black and White conversion…technique that Russell Brown came up with.…

If you're not familiar with Russell, he's one of the senior creative directors…at Adobe, and he's a really fascinating and interesting person. And this…technique is actually quite powerful.…Let's take a look at how we can use it.…What you need to do is actually load it into the Actions panel.…You can do so by clicking on the icon in the top right-hand corner of your panel…and then by selecting LAB Black & White Technique.…This will then open up this particular Black & White Technique Action.…

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4/12/2010

In Photoshop and Bridge CS5 for Photographers New Features, author Chris Orwig explores the enhancements in Photoshop CS5 and Bridge CS5 from a photographer's perspective. This course introduces the Mini Bridge, a brand new panel to browse and open images without leaving Photoshop, expanded layer functionality, improved sharpening and noise reduction in Adobe Camera Raw, cleaning up and enhancing photographs with the new Bristle Brush and content-aware tools, and working with the new High Dynamic Range (HDR) toning controls. Exercise files are included with the course.